Chaotic Relations

Chapter 3

The new chapter in here guys. Enjoy!

Ruhanika

Right now, I was sitting in a lavish car in the backseat beside my brother while my father was sitting in the passenger seat and we were on our way to the airport. There was silence in the car but it was peaceful. However, I wanted to talk to them and get to know them. I wanted to know whether they missed me or not, did they loved me or not. But I was afraid. Afraid of getting rejected by my family that I had just gotten.

Just then, my thoughts were interrupted by a soft yet dominant voice, "How have you been Anika?". I looked at the front to see my father talking to me. I was glad that he initiated some kind of conversation because I surely was not going to initiate one. But wait a minute, Anika. I realized it was my nickname. He must have called me that when I lived with them. "Hey! You fine?" he again said. I realized that I was lost in my thoughts and had spaced out.

"Yeah! Sorry, I was just trying to take in everything that had happened in the last hour." I said trying to cover up my silence. "I am glad that you are here with us now. Your brothers are going to be so happy to see you!" he said. It took me some time to comprehend his words and then a sudden feeling of happiness erupted in me. Finally! At least someone was glad to see me, someone wanted me to be there with them. I decided to ask him more about my family, and who else was going to be there. I realized that I didn't even know their names.

"What are your names?" I asked. As soon as I asked them this question, I saw a hurt flash in their eyes. But it was gone as soon as it came.

"You don't remember us?"

This was the first time my brother had talked to me. I did not know what to say. I knew they were hurt that I didn't even know them and I did not want to say something that would hurt him. An uncomfortable silence engulfed us. My father decided to handle the situation, "Well, never mind. I will tell you all you need to know about our family. So, I am your father, Anant Agnihotri, the king of Jodhpur and-". I interrupted him with excitement, "You mean to say that I belong to a royal family?" "Yes, my dear, and as I was saying, I am the king of Jodhpur and you have seven brothers and a step-mother." To say, I was shocked would be an understatement. I had seven brothers and even a stepmother. I was afraid of having a stepmother because all my life starting from Cinderella, I had heard stories of how evil stepmothers were and I surely did not want to go through the same treatment. But, I should not worry about it and make pre-assumptions about someone I didn't even know. I decided to try my luck and ask, "Any sisters that you forgot to mention?"

"Well, no my dear, I did not forget to mention any sister because you don't have one. In fact, you are the only girl in our family in 7 generations." I was shocked but did not say anything.

I also kind of wished to talk to my eldest brother. After living all my life with a sister who did not care for me and was always scheming against me, I wanted to have a close bond with my newly gained siblings. Just then, the car stopped and I looked out to see that we had reached the airport. My father and brother got out of the car and I was about to do the same but just then my door was opened by someone. I looked up to see my brother. He then forwarded his hand towards me. I contemplated whether to take it or not but then decided to just go with the flow.

We went out with me glued to my father and brother and a circle of security guards surrounding us. It was my first time in an airport and I wanted to see everything but the circle of guards around us was not letting me do so. However, I understood that as a king and prince, my father and brother needed to move with security so I kept my thoughts of wanting to explore the airport to myself. I noticed that we were not going the way everyone else was going but I decided to go with the flow.

"So how is it, Anika?" my father asked. I looked in front to see a beautiful plane and something on it brought tears to my eyes. It had Anika written on it. "This is one of our many private jets Anika. We renamed it after you when your mother took you from us." There were a lot of emotions in my father's eyes when he said that. "Let's get inside." my brother said. We went inside and I was mesmerized by its beauty. My father took a seat and my brother took another seat. I decided that I could use this opportunity to talk to my brother. I went and sat beside him. He looked towards me and I saw a flicker of surprise in his eyes but then he again started to do something on his laptop.

After some time, I gathered the courage to talk to him and said, "So, you are my elder brother, huh?". "Any doubts?" he said still keeping his eyes on his laptop. "Why are you not talking to me? Didn't you miss me?" I said childishly. He turned towards me and looked at me with seriousness and said, "Don't even think for a second that I did not miss you, Anika. I missed you every second of my life after you were taken. You are my sister; my princess and you mean a lot to me." His words touched my heart and cleared every doubt I had about whether they would love me or not. His words gave me a sense of comfort and protectiveness and assured me that even if the world was against me, I would always find him behind me.

I tried to turn the situation in a playful direction to escape the heavy and strong emotions that I was feeling at that time. "So, tell me something about your brothers. "Your nahi our. You have seven brothers. 6 of them are older than you and one is younger." "What are your names?" I asked. He replied, "I am your eldest brother, Divyank Agnihotri and I am also the C.E.O of Agnihotri Group. Then you have Aadarsh, who is a doctor, Nishant who is an actor-" "Wait, Wait, Wait!" I interrupted him with urgency, "Are you talking about the Nishant Agnihotri, the actor of Mission Charlie, The Hacker, and so on... He is my favorite actor!!" I exclaimed with joy at the possibility of having my favorite actor as my brother.

"Yes, I am talking about him only. Next are the twins, Arhaan and Armaan. Arhaan is the silent twin and Armaan is the loud twin. They are the complete opposite of each other. Next is your twin, Rudraansh." "I have a twin brother!" I was very happy to have a twin brother because I had always wanted a twin. "And the last is your stepbrother, Abhimanyu. He is 4 and a half years old." "Yay! We have a baby in the house. I am going to pamper him a lot!" I said and it was true because I absolutely adored small, little, cute, adorable kids."

"Fine, my tigress. You can do all the pampering that you want to do later. Right now let's get you to bed. There is still a lot of time for us to reach." he said laughing. And let me tell you, his laugh was so beautiful that I wanted to make him laugh again and again.

I went towards my father, kissed his cheek, and said, "I am going to sleep Papa. Bye!". Ignoring his surprised look I went with my brother and he tucked me into the bed and started running his fingers in my hair. I slept after some time and the last thing I heard was,

"Your bhaiya is happy to have you back Anika."

To be continued...

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